egypt gets a new constitution is the islamist backed document with a strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course the country's taken. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion coming despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with the palestinians. and it's christmas presents around iraq to across the world the jury's out on whether euro zone leaders behave well enough for santa suit their wishes will brussels sprout wonders or not argue tries to hash out what's in the bag for euro.

five am in moscow i met très a very good to have you with us here on our team our top story this hour official results confirm that egypt's new constitution is passed the national referendum winning a hair less than sixty four percent of the vote the country's electoral commission announced the final tally after its investigations into fraud egypt has witnessed weeks of violence with a two stage referendum soling deep division between supporters and opponents of the country's president mohamed morsi morsi says in acting the new constitution quickly will bring stability and a chance to focus on fixing those against the islamist leading charter have to cry the referendum is fundamentally illegitimate middle east history professor lawrence davidson says they have a reason to be concerned. i think that the opposition to. democracy.

then yes they use locks but if you look at democracy in the west you can be in the united states and so because in europe. honest. it's issues of these democracies we garance he writes menard on the other hand it's not time to i don't know guarantee. a sort of. unusual or not normal lifestyle it's not going to be something that should really go it's going to get. so it's the rights of the minority that are in worry some of the liberals in each and they have a right to be worried. israel has given the green light to building another twelve hundred new settlements in east jerusalem on land that's considered illegally

occupied under international law this in addition to the already approved construction of thousands of homes in the west bank in retaliation over the palestinians upgraded u.n. status artie's middle east correspondent paula sleepier has more. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new secure homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these

announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move said it is well was engaging in to quote a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansionist plans domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli left certainly is appealing to right when voters and according to the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into an election that is said to happen about a month from now at the same time has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive them is the eternal capital of the

state of israel and will continue to build there a united to see them he says expresses a wide national agreement and certainly this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some. school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when the israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the settlements that it is announcing today it's planning on building. currently around half a million people live in israeli settlements but peace campaigner dr ron pundak maintains israel wouldn't have to relocate all the settlers if a territorial agreement is reached with the palestinians. settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those

will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not realities and practices on the ground up to five hundred thousand are being divided at all two hundred thousand total with the in jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we agreed delineate the borders of jews then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close they just sent to the green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered and shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be

standing one hundred thousand is where it's which will have to go and be accepted and we. will be compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes within the national interest of the majority of israelis. remember for more you can always log on to r.t. dot com plenty more online right now including how the u.s. is about to commence a new large scale military deployment this coming year washington will be sending troops to as many as thirty five african countries find out more online plus. the catholic church gives believers and lovers of culture a real christmas present find out what the multi-million euro are databases for at r t. throughout the day santa has been making his schedule deliveries and hopefully you've got what you wanted this christmas but there's been a more window shopping for ten people actually parting with their hard earned cash this season even the catholic church had to rely

a little old fashioned christian charity to help stages traditional masses in peter's basilica and cause for this year's a more frugal nativity nativity scene of were mostly paid with donations in the eurozone peter all of it has been looking out whether the wishlist of those in charge too much even a high powered st nick to handle. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it is busiest time of the year but santa has taken a little bit of time out from clear delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central berlin high something. well if not come on the sled then i say no no it's just to say where it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century there now i understand you've got some letters from the boys and girls and you're going to share with us something here ok all right now this one has come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirteen. dear santa for christmas i would really like

a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reducing one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output from twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international monetary fund getting even more annoyed with us although we didn't make the whole thirty billion euros worth of savings we promised just recently we did try very hard to. demetrius a modest. well who else has been writing to you oh well this one has come from somebody not too far away from where we are right now this is come from a little girl and burn lynn with her christmas wishes for twenty thirty. dear santa thank you for the positive economic growth i asked for last year it has been very helpful this year it would be great if we could have more of the same just is there a way we can give less of our money away to the eurozone countries all the best

angle america p.s. i also want to win the general election next year thank you. of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us ones come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this new more super rich followed gera deputy you and left fronts we really need a seventy five percent income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola and not find ourselves in the same trouble as demetrius thank you francois hollande. oh right well this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future something here is the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however now i'm ready to step back

in leave this lead to success quite possibly out of the you sincerely silvio berlusconi well we'll have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're a minority list. peter all of a. oh peter pan the christmas spirit is everywhere in britain also flowing freely in the nation's pubs and restaurants but the summer treating themselves to a bit too much the holiday cheer is being lost on britain's police and hospital staff sorry for it brings us more from the streets of newcastle. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little t. merry but the christmas spirit once again upon us brings awareness campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing so the number of

alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year it's costing the n.h.s. and millions of pounds in dealing with the people who are coming three the hospitals and in the build up to christmas it really puts a strain on services such as the police and such as are ambulances now that's a very sobering thought indeed we've come to the north of england to new castle to go out on the town the views of a sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been doing some people getting into the festive spirit to find out whether they're going to be drinking responsibly plus a typical night in the car so. very. sorry but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with underage drinking to feel that young people hitting responsibly. know . that hello no everyone just gets up the mall. avoid anything that is

stressed. and. responsibly yeah yeah well sometimes i'm not but i. i'm not tonight because of the good night out with a drink response report on order you heard tell me your school where you can also. see apart from these guys you want to do a proper run of the car do what you want just to get more responsible over the internet are you more slow food people are over the age of twenty five not really both. because the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us that we can the phone. christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights the breakout had excessive drinking and this is why a campaign is a calling on the government to really tighten up the policies to make sure that we

keep seeing these increases in alcohol abuse in the case for their part the government this year have really tried to target the sale of cheap alcohol campaign is a really calling on people to be very careful about how much they drink over the festive period surface r.t. recalls. south korea may have some expensive toys heading its way this season courtesy of the u.s. the pentagon looking to sell a number of unmanned aircraft to seoul more on international reaction played iraq plus. for people used to live in the slums now economically disadvantaged occupies substandard housing in the inner cities winding voters with semantics later this hour we'll look at how politicians use language to mask what they're really up to after a short break. and. deadly

rivals for decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed costs from society i will tell myself am i going to tell my brother not to stand my. immediate i'm going to leave. the cause of my anger and my frustration. that. well into that you don't want. to leave the most violent gangs in us history. is just all model kill or be killed with all those matching the national flag.

of this country uses violence when it chooses and then it legitimizes that. they are made in america on the ati. she was your language. so that we can we know if you're going to. choose the consensus you. choose to give us the great. choose the stories but if you. choose accents.

thanks for sticking with us here on our t.v. seventeen minutes past the hour the pentagon has proposed supplying a high altitude spy drones to south korea the deal for up to four pilotless drone still needs congressional approval and could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars analysts niall bowie though thinks the sale could seriously antagonize north korea which is very sensitive to potential intrusions over its territory. if congress allows these drones to be sold to south korea what i think will happen is that they will use these drones to monitor the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they could also potentially be used to monitor north koreans and north korea's nuclear facilities however we have to remember that north korea is one of many times but its territorial integrity so i think will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate north korean airspace this could

potentially start a huge conflict and if you look at the results of that latest offering elections the president will let him hey she campaigned on a model of. reaching. into relations with north korea and going will get easier but i think what this shows is that my purchasing these drones are having the intention to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory in any meaningful way i don't think north korea it will attack anyone who listens for book first and if we look at reports coming out of south korea or south korea and the scientists it looked at the satellite this morning you orbit around a small function and reports say that the machining work done on the galaxy three missile that they watched was very crude so i think what the real danger is and it is in north korea pursuing these tests and was staking you know having seen debris from on china wharf looking for stuff where japan and killing

a lot of people and tension. double talk designed to dress up reality in sound bites and easily digested by voters has become the default language of the political elite artie's worried a porton eye looks at whether u.s. voters are willing to read between the lines to work out what politicians are really saying. the art of politics is made up of many things. handshakes smiles and a good arsenal of verbal camouflage americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality americans have trouble facing the truth or as the elite american comedian george carlin put it euphemistically language that conceals reality poor people used to live in the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and their her. they don't have a negative cash flow position. and today america's love affair with

semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators in america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that have a saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can't raise their taxes they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take anymore and put the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap in the first world war that condition was called shows today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any

emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes stress post-traumatic. disorient for those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. we're taking it to a war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like. saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral damages to me is the worst expression no it's innocent men women and children were killed in the collateral damage so that a real estate transactions alex soldiers shooting each other has become known as friendly fire kidnapping and transferring terrorist suspect is called extraordinary rendition and the torture america's war prisoners might endure is referred to as enhanced interrogation in most cases these new words are used by people who try to define an argument or frame it in a way that will support the position that they're advocating and during the last u.s. presidential election a certain demographic of voters became otherwise known as without low information voters bother went to twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information

voters think low information voters are stupid people but you say low information voters because it sounds nice although in their defense it could be people who are just too busy you know their lives their family and their work they don't have time to focus on the election until the very last minute and then they vote based on the hairstyle of the candidate running for president as america's political elite the continues creating new vocabulary to soften the hard truth a greater focus could instead be put into asking why so many issues need to be rephrased before being presented to the public george carlin created comedy about the strategy but it was george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a military aircraft crash in southern kazakstan killing all twenty seven people aboard yacking ahead of the country's border guards it was on the flight which is also thought to have been carrying other high ranking military personnel the plane

took off from the capital austin and came down just twenty kilometers from its destination near the city of shame can local media reports the pilots were trying to make an emergency landing the exact cause of the crash is unknown an investigation is under way. police in bahrain used tear gas and antigovernment protesters continuing an intense crackdown on public gatherings demonstrators demand the prime minister's resignation and a democratically elected government they also want the release of human rights companion campaigner saeed yousef who was jailed earlier this month for writing about the crackdown on twitter this just as the country wraps up a gulf economic and military some. eleven preschool children in china have been killed in a bus accident the principal was behind the wheel of a vehicle that plunged into a pond she's been arrested on suspicion of reckless driving and overloading the bus the kindergarten also faces closure as it was found to be operating without

a license. and syrian rebels claim to have captured a small town near the turkish border government forces surrendered after weeks of heavy fighting opposition fighters now control large parts of the north of the country after seizing three major military bases an attack is now underway on a fourth base. as we countdown our to our final goodbyes to the year two thousand and twelve artie's looking back on what the years brought us all today are news teams recall the austerity anger that swept europe. it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k.

and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so we. still it's over some type of square and i just see the cameraman behind the camera everybody else around me putting gas masks on you for must be for your life before you can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd the shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use the elements of the course force you've got the tragic stories of people who are driven to desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their life because just the way over to iraq this must.

pull people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost of the state the services and then you really get a sense of just how angry how desperate people. get the full of love that's doing to the country and so yes it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the clashes break out. and after a short break r.t. james brown goes to switzerland to learn how to stage a nineteenth century ball for everyone celebrating have a very merry christmas stay with us.

underdogs these men and women a week in one of the longest unfortunately the loneliest road in the world they reenacting march into exile made by thousands of czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia it took them years to get there summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it have guinea discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his re-enact is now receiving to us from all over the world to show

them what it was like when these stories going to it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future. it's a monument to one of the risk russia's cruelest chapters. the city served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. approaching

the tasha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation he asked her to walk it's the tremulous expression on the task his face prepared either for despair all rapture suddenly brightened into a happy grateful childlike smile. i have long been waiting for you that frightened happy girl seemed to say by the smile that replaced the threatened tears as she raised her hand to prince under a shoulder. they were the second couple to enter the circle prince andre was one of the best dancers of his day i'm natasha dump sticks was.